"note":"A pun on a saying that 99% of war is just killing time, while the rest is the killing time.",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Heavy Messing",

"shipClass":"ROU",

"shipType":"Gangster",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Frank Exchange Of Views",

"shipClass":"dROU",

"shipType":"Psychopath",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"Plate",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Death and Gravity",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Ethics Gradient",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"Range",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Honest Mistake",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Limivorous",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"Ocean",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"No Fixed Abode",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"Ex-Equator",

"note":"(Sabbaticaler)",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Quietly Confident, later Sleeper Service",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"Plate",

"note":"(Eccentric, Ulterior) Known as storage ship for biological persons in stasis. The name Sleeper Service is a pun on sleeping car (transport) and sleeper agent (espionage).",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Uninvited Guest",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Use Psychology",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"What Is The Answer and Why?",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Wisdom Like Silence",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"Continent",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Yawning Angel",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"Range",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Zero Gravitas",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"Part of the \"... Gravitas ...\" running gag.[3]",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Misophist",

"shipClass":"LSV",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Serious Callers Only",

"shipClass":"LSV",

"shipType":"Tundra",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Not Invented Here",

"shipClass":"MSV",

"shipType":"Desert",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Charitable View",

"shipClass":"Superlifter",

"shipType":"Cliff",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"I Blame My Mother",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"I Blame Your Mother",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Appeal To Reason",

"shipClass":"Stargazer",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Zetetic Elench"

},

{

"name":"Break Even",

"shipClass":"Stargazer",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Zetetic Elench"

},

{

"name":"Long View",

"shipClass":"Stargazer",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Zetetic Elench"

},

{

"name":"Peace Makes Plenty",

"shipClass":"Stargazer",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Zetetic Elench"

},

{

"name":"Sober Counsel",

"shipClass":"Stargazer",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Zetetic Elench"

},

{

"name":"Within Reason",

"shipClass":"Stargazer",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Zetetic Elench"

},

{

"name":"Kiss the Blade",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"",

"civilisation":"Affront"

},

{

"name":"Frightspear",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Affront"

},

{

"name":"Furious Purpose",

"shipClass":"Light Cruiser",

"shipType":"Meteorite Class",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Affront"

},

{

"name":"Riptalon",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Affront"

},

{

"name":"Wingclipper",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Affront"

},

{

"name":"SacSlicer II",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Affront"

},

{

"name":"Xenoclast",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"Battleship",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Affront"

},

{

"name":"Full Refund (Ex-'MBU 604')",

"shipClass":"Main Battle Unit",

"shipType":"Empire Class",

"note":"(Convertcraft)",

"civilisation":"Homomdan"

},

{

"name":"Just Passing Through",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"Cruise Ship, n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Bad for Business",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Arbitrary",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"Escarpment (middle series)",

"note":"Produced by a manufactory of the Yinang Orbitals of the Dahass-Khree, known for ships that are \"a bit crazy.\"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Cantankerous",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Only Slightly Bent",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"I Thought He Was With You",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Space Monster",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"A Series Of Unlikely Explanations",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Big Sexy Beast",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Never Talk To Strangers",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Funny, It Worked Last Time...",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Boo!",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Ultimate Ship The Second",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"It'll Be Over By Christmas",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"A Ship With A View*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Ablation*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Arrested Development*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Credibility Problem*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Dramatic Exit, Or, Thank you And Goodnight*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Excuses And Accusations*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"God Told Me To Do It*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Halation Effect*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Happy Idiot Talk*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Helpless In The Face Of Your Beauty*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Heresiarch*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Minority Report*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Not Wanted On Voyage*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Perfidy*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Sacrificial Victim*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Stranger Here Myself*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Synchronize Your Dogmas*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"The Precise Nature Of The Catastrophe*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Unwitting Accomplice*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Undesirable Alien*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Well I Was In The Neighbourhood*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"You Would If You Really Loved Me*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"You'll Thank Me Later*",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Winter Storm",

"shipClass":"(Chelgrian)",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Piety",

"shipClass":"(Chelgrian)",

"shipType":"n/a (Temple ship)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Soulhaven",

"shipClass":"(Chelgrian)",

"shipType":"n/a (Temple ship)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Nuisance Value",

"shipClass":"ROU",

"shipType":"Torturer",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Vulgarian",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"Superlifter",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Sanctioned Parts List",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Resistance Is Character-Forming",

"shipClass":"VFP",

"shipType":"Gangster",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff *",

"shipClass":"OU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Someone Else's Problem *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Lacking That Small Match Temperament *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Poke It With A Stick *",

"shipClass":"GCU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"I Said, I've Got A Big Stick*",

"shipClass":"OU",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"The small print (spoken softly) is a pun on \"Speak softly and carry a big stick.\"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"But Who's Counting? *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Germane Riposte *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"All The Same, I Saw It First *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Zero Credibility *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Charming But Irrational *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Demented But Determined *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Lucid Nonsense *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Awkward Customer *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Thorough But ... Unreliable *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Advanced Case Of Chronic Patheticism *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Conventional Wisdom *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"In One Ear *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Fine Till You Came Along *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"I Blame The Parents *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Inappropriate Response *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Lapsed Pacifist *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Reformed Nice Guy *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Pride Comes Before A Fall *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Injury Time *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Now Look What You've Made Me Do *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Kiss This Then *",

"shipClass":"n/a",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Lasting Damage",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"The Lasting Damage was one of the GSVs that formed the Culture's offensive forces during the early part of the Idiran-Culture War. Later mind-state copied into other ships, it became the Mind of Masaq orbital.",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Lasting Damage I",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"The original Lasting Damage, assumed destroyed but eventually returned.",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Lasting Damage II",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"The recreated backup copy twin of the Lasting Damage.",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall",

"shipClass":"GSV",

"shipType":"Equator-class",

"note":"Part of the \"... Gravitas ...\" running gag. Also mentioned in Matter.",

"civilisation":""

},

{

"name":"Don't Try This At Home",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"MSV (Steppe-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Eight Rounds Rapid",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"(ex) GOU (Delinquent-class)",

"note":"Potentially an inside joke alluding to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's command of \"five rounds rapid\" against a hostile \"chap with wings\" in The Dæmons (Doctor Who).",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GCU",

"note":"Part of the \"... Gravitas ...\" running gag. Also mentioned in Look to Windward.",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"It's My Party And I'll Sing If I Want To",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GCU (Escarpment-class)",

"note":"Pun on the song It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to, which continues \"... You would cry too if it happened to you.\"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Lightly Seared On The Reality Grill",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GCU",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Now We Try It My Way",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"(ex) General Transport Craft (Interstellar-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Liveware Problem",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"Superlifter (Stream-class, modified Delta-class)",

"note":"Likely a Special Circumstances operative. The phrase is a joke among computer engineers, suggesting that the problem lies with the user. Destroyed whilst battling a Morthanveld ship which had been taken over by a member of the Iln in the core of Sursamen.",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Pure Big Mad Boat Man",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GCU",

"note":"An inside joke based upon the language of Ned (Scottish) culture. It would be read/heard as \"a pure big, mad boat, man\" roughly meaning \"a very large and deadly serious boat my good man\".",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Qualifier",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GCU (Trench-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Seed Drill",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GSV (Ocean-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Subtle Shift In Emphasis",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GCV (Plains-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Transient Atmospheric Phenomenon",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GCU",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Xenoglossicist",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"LSV (Air-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"You Naughty Monsters",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GCU",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"You'll Clean That Up Before You Leave",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"(d)ROU (Gangster-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Hence the Fortress",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"Comet (Star-cruiser)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Nariscene"

},

{

"name":"Hundredth Idiot, The",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"White Dwarf",

"note":"Chose its name from a Nariscene proverb.",

"civilisation":"Nariscene"

},

{

"name":"Fasilyce, Upon Waking",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"Cat.5 SwellHull",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Morthanveld"

},

{

"name":"Inspiral, Coalescence, Ringdown",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"Great Ship",

"note":"Comparable to a GSV; the name refers to three stages in the merger of two black holes.",

"civilisation":"Morthanveld"

},

{

"name":"On First Seeing Jhiriit",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"Cat.4 CleaveHull",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Morthanveld"

},

{

"name":"Now, Turning to Reason, & Its Just Sweetness",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"Cat.3 SlimHull",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Morthanveld"

},

{

"name":"Sense Amid Madness, Wit Amidst Folly",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GSV (Plate-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Me, I'm Counting",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"(ex) LOU (Hooligan-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Bodhisattva, OAQS",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GCU",

"note":"Part of Contact's Quietudinal Service (Quietus). Quietus ships added letters OAQS - On Active Quietudinal Service - to their names while they were so employed.",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Total Internal Reflection",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GSV",

"note":"One of the \"Forgotten\" Culture ships.",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Armchair Traveller",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GCU (Mountain-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"The Usual But Etymologically Unsatisfactory",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"FP/(d)ROU (Psychopath-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Hidden Income",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"n/a (Interstellar-class)",

"note":"Type not mentioned in novel, but possibly General Transport Craft (see Matter)",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GOU (Abominator-class)",

"note":"actually categorized as PS class, \"Picket Ship\"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Hylozoist",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"(ex) LOU (Killer-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"No One Knows What The Dead Think",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"FP/(ex) GOU",

"note":"Previously named Obliterating Angel",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Pelagian",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"GSV (Equator-class)",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Fixed Grin",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Scar Glamour",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"",

"civilisation":"Culture"

},

{

"name":"Labtebricolephile",

"shipClass":"",

"shipType":"n/a",

"note":"Labtebricolephile means a person or thing that likes living in holes",